Ellen Albertini Dow
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Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and may be best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rappers Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Credits
Patch Adams (1998)
as Aggie
Sister Act (1992)
as Choir Nun
Wedding Crashers (2005)
as Grandma Mary Cleary
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)
as Choir Nun
Road Trip (2000)
as Barry's Grandma
The Wedding Singer (1998)
as Rosie
Munchies (1987)
as Little Old Lady
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
as Mrs. Coulson
Ready to Rumble (2000)
as Mrs. MacKenzie
Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
as See's Candies Box (voice)
My Blue Heaven (1990)
as Nun
54 (1998)
as Disco Dottie
Problem Child 3 (1995)
as Lila Duvane
Blood and Concrete (1991)
as Old Lady
Radioland Murders (1994)
as Organist
Without a Paddle: Nature's Calling (2009)
as Mrs. Bessler
Frank the Bastard (2015)
as Dora
Carnival of Souls (1998)
as Mrs. Meltzer
Going to the Chapel (1988)
as Grandma Haldane
Longshot (2001)
as Ms. Fleisher
Not Another Not Another Movie (2011)
as Rose
The Blue Hour (2007)
as Anabella
The Invited (2010)
as Natalie Shaw
Fat Girls (2006)
as Mildred
American Drive-In (1985)
as Allison
Annie's Point (2005)
as Louise Tette
Space Case (1992)
as Betsy